Current bio:

The Stacks are a rock and roll band from New Orleans, Louisiana. The band set out to perform Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley-related music, but they also absorbed a lot of more modern stuff from the atmosphere, such as the performance style of Clarence Carter, or the comedy of Blue Oyster Cult.

The current line up is guitar player Dave Rhoden, Andrew Donaldson (of Athens, GA's Mercyland, and formerly of several zydeco outfits) on bass, and Steve Walkup (of more bands than I can count) plays the drums.

The Stacks are on Bandcamp at https://thestacksnola.bandcamp.com/.

The Story:

The Stacks started because I (Dave) was in a pajama-wearing band called The Sleepy Heads that was very good, but contained at least two stubborn people (one being me). The other stubborn guy wanted to go in a more rehearsed direction, with rehearsals and choreography and songs that had set running times. I wanted to be more spontaneous, with new songs every show, and just let the songs go as long as people stayed on their feet.

The Sleepy Heads broke up over this stubbornness, but we had a couple of gigs booked that I still wanted to play, so I said, "let's start a cover band" just for these two or three gigs. (The name The Stacks refers to the "stacks" of records we would be covering.) That was about twenty years ago. I guess we just forgot to stop.

Current Stacks:

David Rhoden
Andrew Donaldson
Steve Walkup

Previous Stacks:

David Rhoden
Andrew Donaldson
Andre Marquette

David Rhoden
Andrew Donaldson
Steve Walkup
Tom Beeman

David Rhoden
Trey Ledford
Steve Walkup
Tom Beeman

David Rhoden
Trey Ledford
Steve Walkup

David Rhoden
Chan Menon
Trey Ledford
Steve Walkup
Doug DeRienzo

David Rhoden
Chan Menon
Sara Essex
Paul Grass
Ron Bocian

An incomplete, alphabetical list of bands we have a degree of separation with (i.e., somebody who was in the Stacks at one time also played in one of these bands at one time):

All-Night Movers
Big Blue Marble
Bipolaroid
Egg Yolk Jubilee
Four Star Volcanic
Guzzard
Hi-Balls
Jimmy and The Wolfpack
La Brea Stompers
Long Low Rumble
Mercyland
O-Pines
Picnic
St. Lorelei
Sunrise : Sunset

Endorsements

David Rhoden is a compensated endorser of Clayton USA guitar picks.
They're the best.